I was playing with IMX260 and ISOCELL for entire day today. After a lot of testing in daylight (sunny) and low light of both sensors my thoughts looks like these ones:
IMX260
1. Marginally sharper across the frame - for pixel peepers
2. Overprocessed photos - too much sharpening, too strong color saturation
3. A lot of post processing artifacts, for example: NOISE, halos, strange looking edges
4. Fast but unreliable auto focus in all conditions
5. Sometimes AF fails in macro shots
6. F1.7 is not the same as F1.7 from ISOCELL
7. Limited dynamic range in sunny weather conditions
8. Awful HDR photos - HDR mode adds a lot of noise and smears a lot of fine details too.
9. Really bad white balance... Even my old S4 had better Auto WB than IMX260...
10. Good for social media (Facebook, Instagram) because of "processed" look of original photos
ISOCELL
1. Post processing that looks like it was taken from Galaxy S6 IMX240. That's good to be honest.
2. Excellent color reproduction - color in the photos are very similar to the real ones.
3. A tad slower than IMX260 AF but more precise
4. Isn't as sharp as IMX260 but I don't think it's an issue because sensor gets the same amount of details
5. The real F1.7 lens - means that you can really get beautyful bokeh in macro photography. I don't know why but bokeh from IMX260 isn't that nice...
6. Lower noise than IMX260 in all lighting conditions
7. Very good HDR implemantation... HDR photos are less noisy than photos taken by IMX260 in HDR. It's to be honest really huge difference regardless of the situation
8. Better low light noise control and colors. Seriously IMX260 sucks badly at night photos.
9. OIS dosn't work that good like it does on IMX240... That's really strange.
10. Better for videos because of less amount of noise and superior dynamic range
Because I bought 2 different Galaxy S7 phones just to perform tests I need to sell one of them. And I decided to keep ISOCELL version of Galaxy S7. Photos taken by ISOCELL sensor looks much better than from IMX260. They look like they were taken by Galaxy S6 IMX240 sensor. I think that's the best recomendation.
Performers:
- Black Onyx - ISOCELL
- Platinum Gold - IMX260
IMX260
1. Marginally sharper across the frame - for pixel peepers
2. Overprocessed photos - too much sharpening, too strong color saturation
3. A lot of post processing artifacts, for example: NOISE, halos, strange looking edges
4. Fast but unreliable auto focus in all conditions
5. Sometimes AF fails in macro shots
6. F1.7 is not the same as F1.7 from ISOCELL
7. Limited dynamic range in sunny weather conditions
8. Awful HDR photos - HDR mode adds a lot of noise and smears a lot of fine details too.
9. Really bad white balance... Even my old S4 had better Auto WB than IMX260...
10. Good for social media (Facebook, Instagram) because of "processed" look of original photos
ISOCELL
1. Post processing that looks like it was taken from Galaxy S6 IMX240. That's good to be honest.
2. Excellent color reproduction - color in the photos are very similar to the real ones.
3. A tad slower than IMX260 AF but more precise
4. Isn't as sharp as IMX260 but I don't think it's an issue because sensor gets the same amount of details
5. The real F1.7 lens - means that you can really get beautyful bokeh in macro photography. I don't know why but bokeh from IMX260 isn't that nice...
6. Lower noise than IMX260 in all lighting conditions
7. Very good HDR implemantation... HDR photos are less noisy than photos taken by IMX260 in HDR. It's to be honest really huge difference regardless of the situation
8. Better low light noise control and colors. Seriously IMX260 sucks badly at night photos.
9. OIS dosn't work that good like it does on IMX240... That's really strange.
10. Better for videos because of less amount of noise and superior dynamic range
Because I bought 2 different Galaxy S7 phones just to perform tests I need to sell one of them. And I decided to keep ISOCELL version of Galaxy S7. Photos taken by ISOCELL sensor looks much better than from IMX260. They look like they were taken by Galaxy S6 IMX240 sensor. I think that's the best recomendation.
Performers:
- Black Onyx - ISOCELL
- Platinum Gold - IMX260